Samuel L. Manzello is a technical advisor at Reax Engineering and visiting professor Tohoku University (Japan). He has worked on microgravity droplet combustion, droplet-surface interaction, soot formation in well-stirred reactor/plug flow reactor, fire-structure interaction, and structure vulnerabilities in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

Samuel L. Manzello
Manzello in 2017
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Known forFirebrand generator, the Dragon
Scientific career
FieldsDroplet combustion, Droplet-surface interaction, Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires
InstitutionsReax Engineering, Inc.
ThesisMicrogravity droplet combustion: An experimental investigation on the influence of sooting and radiation on droplet burning (2000)
Doctoral advisorMun Y. Choi
Websitehttps://reaxengineering.com/fire-experts/samuel-l-manzello-phd/

Life and career edit

Manzello holds B.S. with honors (1996) and PhD (2000) in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois-Chicago. He was awarded NASA Graduate Student Research fellowship during his PhD and has performed experiments in NASA's drop tower and Japan Microgravity Centre (JAMIC)’s drop tower as well as NASA's vomit comet (reduced-gravity aircraft) investigating sooting and radiation on droplet combustion in microgravity. His dissertation was Microgravity droplet combustion: An experimental investigation on the influence of sooting and radiation on droplet burning supervised by Prof. Mun Y. Choi.

After graduation, Manzello joined NIST as a National Research Council (NRC) postdoc fellow in 2001.

Manzello left NIST in 2021, and joined Reax Engineering, Inc, as a technical advisor.[citation needed]

Awards and honors edit

  • 2015 Harry C. Biggelstone Award from NFPA for a paper "Characterizing Firebrand Exposure from Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires: Results from the 2007 Angora Fire" [1][2] This is the very first journal paper which investigated the firebrand exposure from WUI fires.
  • 2016 Tibor Z. Harmathy Award from Springer Nature for a paper, "Experimental Study of Firebrand Transport"[3][4]
  • 2016 Best Journal Paper Award from the Combustion Society of Japan for a paper "The Size and Mass Distribution of Firebrands collected from Ignited Building Components Exposed to Wind"[5]
  • 2017 Samuel Wasley Stratton Award, NIST "for his groundbreaking engineering and scientific research on the vulnerabilities of built structures to ignition from wind-driven firebrand showers produced from wildland-urban interface fires".[6]
  • 2020 Best Best Journal Paper Award from the Combustion Society of Japan for a paper "Role of firebrand combustion in large outdoor fire spread".[7]

Selected publications edit

  • Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of wildfires and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires, 2020[8]

References edit

  1. ^ "NFPA Presents Awards for Contributions in Fire and Life Safety at NFPA Conference & Expo". Fire Engineering. June 28, 2015. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  2. ^ Manzello, Samuel L.; Foote, Ethan I. D. (January 1, 2014). "Characterizing Firebrand Exposure from Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) Fires: Results from the 2007 Angora Fire". Fire Technology. 50 (1): 105–124. doi:10.1007/s10694-012-0295-4. ISSN 1572-8099. S2CID 108581449.
  3. ^ "Fire Technology". Springer. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  4. ^ Zhou, Kuibin; Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L. (July 1, 2015). "Experimental Study of Firebrand Transport". Fire Technology. 51 (4): 785–799. doi:10.1007/s10694-014-0411-8. ISSN 1572-8099. S2CID 55228510.
  5. ^ Suzuki, Sayaka; Manzello, Samuel L.; Hayashi, Yoshihiko (January 1, 2013). "The size and mass distribution of firebrands collected from ignited building components exposed to wind". Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 34 (2): 2479–2485. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.061. ISSN 1540-7489.
  6. ^ Anonymous (November 14, 2019). "2017 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Manzello". NIST. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  7. ^ Manzello, Samuel L.; Suzuki, Sayaka; Gollner, Michael J.; Fernandez-Pello, A. Carlos (January 2020). "Role of firebrand combustion in large outdoor fire spread". Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 76: 100801. doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2019.100801. ISSN 0360-1285. PMC 7047831. PMID 32116406.
  8. ^ Encyclopedia of wildfire and wildland-urban interface + ereference. [Place of publication not identified]: SPRINGER. 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-52091-9. OCLC 966194616.

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